Book Review: The Burning by Kathryn Lasky (Guardians of Ga'Hoole #6)

 

What I presume is the last book of the first arc in the series? Based on how it ends? Let's dive in, spoilers ahead.

Book Review: The Complete Ice Age by Brian M. Fagan, John F. Hoffecker, et al.

 

The ice age as a topic has been interesting me as of late...so let's read a non-fiction book about it!

Book Review: The Midnight Guardians by Ross Montgomery

 

This one has a pretty neat cover, prompting me to check it out. Yes, I do occasionally judge a book by its cover. Spoilers ahead.

Book Review: Stone Fox by John Reynolds Gardiner

 

This is actually a book I have a history with. To be specific, I once started reading the Dutch translation as a young kid in school but never managed to finish it for whatever reason. Ever since then I was looking for the book again so I could hopefully finish it, but I couldn't find it anywhere because I'd forgotten the title, author, plot or even the name of the (Dutch) publisher. So finding it was difficult, all I remembered was the word "Zoeklicht" (Searchlight) and a black dog on the cover. Not a lot to go off.

But due to a lucky turn of events I recently found out what the Dutch title of the book is (it directly translated to "The Great Dog Sledding Race") and even managed to get a cheap secondhand copy of the Dutch edition. Turns out this book is none other than Stone Fox, a book I already knew existed but just never made the connection that the Dutch edition was a translation of this book because of the different title.

So now that I have a finally copy after my longer-than-a-decade quest to figure out what that one book I read as a kid was, I might as well read and review it, eh? Spoilers ahead.

Book Review: The NeverEnding Story by Michael Ende

 

The Neverending Story is definitely a story I grew up with, just not in book form. I watched the movie a few times as a kid and it traumatized me each time to the point I stopped watching it after our VCR player died and we didn't get the movie on DVD. There were elements of the movie that I loved, but there were some scenes I just found terrifying. 

Now in adulthood, I recently re-bought the DVD and I love the movie, but only now did I notice it's actually based on a book. So after borrowing it from the library: Let's have a look! Spoilers ahead!

Book Review: Children's Dinosaur and Prehistorical Animal Encyclopedia by Douglas Palmer

 

I want to learn more about prehistoric animals, so sure, why not check this one out? 

Book Review: Chasing Evil by Adam Blade (The Chronicles of Avantia #2)

I gave book one a pretty hard time in my last review of this series. Hopefully this second installment is better. Spoilers ahead.

Book Review: The Pack of Darkness by Charly Art (Moonlight Wolves #2)

 

Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads Moonlight Wolves #2: Das Rudel der Finsternis.

I had a lot of praise for book one, so let's see how book two in this series/trilogy fares! Spoilers ahead!

Book Review: Capital of Animals by Clemens Maier-Wolthausen

 

Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads Hauptstadt der Tiere.

Diving both into history and my common topic of animals/nature today with a book about the history of Germany's oldest zoo: Zoo Berlin.

Book Review: The Discovery of Nature by Hans Mulder

 

Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads De ontdekking van de natuur.

Fun fact: I recently read another Dutch book on this subject (well, roughly the same subject) with the exact same title, except it was by Jan Luiten van Zanden and several other authors. What a co-incidence!

Ah well, let's have a look!

Book Review: The Secret of the Shadow Wolves by Charly Art (Moonlight Wolves #1)

 

Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads Moonlight Wolves #1: Das Geheimnis der Schattenwölfe.

I've been following this series for a while now, online updates of what is releasing I mean. So far three books have been published, and with it being a wolf xenofiction it obviously peaked my interest. It sadly hasn't been translated outside of it's original German release yet, but let's have a look. Spoilers ahead.

Book Review: The Queen of Sleep by Thea Stilton (Princesses of Fantasy Kingdom #6)

 

  Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads Principesse del Regno della Fantasia #6: La Regina del Sonno.

I guess you could call this the finale of the first arc, despite this technically being one big ongoing series? Or at least a mid-series finale. Either way, I'm excited to delve into this semi-conclusion of the first part of the series. Spoilers ahead.

Book Review: Museum für Naturkunde: The Exhibitions by Gesine Steiner, et al.

 

If you know me, you know I love the subject of nature, natural history and taxidermy. So this makes me visiting natural history museums when and where I can a regular occurrence. Recently I visited the Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin, and purchased this book in the gift shop thereafter. Let's have a look.

Book Review: The Discover of Nature by Jan Luiten van Zanden, Rob Lenders, et al.

 

Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads De ontdekking van de natuur.

Recently I learned that April (when I read this book, this review might be published later) in the Netherlands is known as the "Month of Nature Books", so a prime time to read this book (and a few others surrounding the subject). I found this one at a bookstore and impulse-bought it, but I do not regret it. Let's have a look.

Book Review: Wildlife of the World by Don E. Wilson, et al.

 

Sometimes you gotta read an absolute thick unit of a book on wild animals. This is such a book.

Book Review: Of Foxes and Men by Sophia Kimmig

 Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads Von Füchsen und Menschen.

German fox non-fiction! That's gonna be a first from me. I've reviewed some German books on here once or twice before, but they were usually fiction books aimed at younger audiences. My German is good, but I still am at times a bit hesitant to try more.

Until now. I think I genuinely want to start consuming more German content to learn the language more. I'm already confident in my English and Dutch, obviously, but it cannot hurt to hone my German skills more. 

Anyways, let's have a look.

Book Review: How Humans Took Over the World by Yuval Noah Harari (Unstoppable Us #1)

 

Almost forgot to review this one because I didn't add it to my Trello queue! Ah well, luckily I remembered!

Book Review: The Riddle of Fire by Thea Stilton (Incanto #4)

 

  Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads Incanto #4: L'enigma del fuoco.

The fourth book, and the last I'll review from this series. Like I said before, they stopped translating the Incanto series into Dutch after this one, and since I don't speak Italian and it has not been translated into another language I speak, my Incanto journey unfortunately has to end here. I don't mind it that much because so far this has definitely been the most underwhelming series I've read by Geronimo and Thea Stilton so far, but it's not outright bad, either. Just mostly harmless and simple. 

Let's have a look then, shall we? Spoilers ahead!

Book Review: Nature in the Netherlands by William van den Akker

 Note: The title of this book has been translated into English by me for the reading comprehension of this blog's viewers as the book itself isn't available in English (yet). The original title reads Natuur in Nederland.

A short Dutch non-fiction about the nature in our little land. 

Book Review: Serafina and the Splintered Heart by Robert Beatty (Serafina #3)

 

Let's have a look at the third one! Spoilers ahead!